3 results for tag: Clean Lakes Program

Coming Soon: Clean Lakes Program Advocacy Campaign

The North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) is excited to share with you some information about an advocacy campaign for restoring funding to, and enhancing, Section 314 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The North American Lakes Management Society (NALMS) 314 Working Group has been developing the elements of an advocacy campaign related to restoring funding to Section 314 of the CWA, to once again allow for diagnostic-feasibility studies to be conducted on lakes and ponds across the country. Another component of the campaign is to enhance Section 314 by including funding for preservation and protection efforts for high quality waters. The ...

NALMS Internship Opportunities

NALMS is accepting applications for three internship opportunities: NALMS JEDI Internship The intern will work with the NALMS Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee to support the process of completing a 5-year plan for NALMS to use in incorporating JEDI into all facets of the organization. To achieve this goal the intern will focus their efforts in these areas: Internal Assessment Outreach Internal Planning and Strategy Symposium Planning The intern will take the lead on assessing previously collected information, and possible collection of further data, to help define this plan. The intern will have an integral ...

NALMS Takes a Stand for Clean Lakes Programming & Lake Shoreland Protection

By Jessica Converse, NALMS Policy Intern; NALMS 314 Working Group Lake conditions change slowly over time, but their transformations are not to be minimized. These inland bodies of water are sentinels of climate change impacts over broader catchment scales. Additionally, diminished lake quality exacerbates the release of greenhouse gases (Beaulieu et al., 2019) and encourages harmful cyanobacteria growth (Paerl, 2017), both of which impact public health. Without concerted effort to protect and restore water quality as well as reimagine investment into lake communities, we further jeopardize our most precious resource: fresh water. Unimpaired ...